From 586ca692823085e7d1475580163102c702b99fe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:09:33 +0000 Subject: The real 5.2.0. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2659 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 36 ++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 37cc3c42..6f0b1ec8 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1999/11/30 20:01:32 $ +$Date: 1999/12/19 18:05:39 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -538,6 +538,17 @@ site.

The specific recipe for using fetchmail with a firewall is at K1

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+

B1. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.

+ +In the immortal words of Alan Cox the last time this came up: ``Take +the Solaris lex and stick it up the backside of a passing Sun +salesman, then install flex and use that. All +will be happier.''

+ +I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.

+

G11. Is any special configuration needed to send mail?

@@ -573,17 +584,6 @@ No. Fetchmail is a mail transport agent, best understood as a protocol gateway between POP3/IMAP servers and SMTP. Disconnected operation requires an elaborate interactive client. It's a very different problem.

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-

B1. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.

- -In the immortal words of Alan Cox the last time this came up: ``Take -the Solaris lex and stick it up the backside of a passing Sun -salesman, then install flex and use that. All -will be happier.''

- -I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.

-

B2. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.

@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ all-numeric token as a number, which confused it when it was expecting a name. String quoting forces the token's class.

The lexical analyzer in 5.0.6 and beyond is smarter and assumes -any token following "username" or "password" is a string.

+any token following "username" or "password" is a string.

F3. The .fetchmailrc parser won't accept my host or username beginning with `no'.

@@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ banished by upgrading to qpopper 3.0b1.

-

Bad interaction with fetchmail 4.4.2 to 4.4.7

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Bad interaction with fetchmail 4.4.2 to 4,4.7

Versions of fetchmail from 4.4.2 through 4.4.7 had a bad interaction with Eudora qpopper versions 2.3 and later. See X5 @@ -1466,10 +1466,6 @@ You can't. At least not if you want to be able to see attachments. MailMax has a bug; it reports the message length with attachments but doesn't download them on TOP or RETR.

-We recommend ditching MailMax for a server that actually works. While -you're at it, you should consider ditching the NT it runs over for an operating -system that actually works (see G7).

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S10. How can I use fetchmail with Novell GroupWise?

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R8. Fetchmail running as root stopped working after an OS upgrade

+R8. Fetchmail running as root stopped working after an OS upgrade In RH 6.0, the HOME value in the boot-time root environment changed from /root to / as the result of a change in init. Move your @@ -2502,7 +2498,7 @@ inactivity timeout.

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Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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